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wgmitchener / xerox_accounting_template.ppd
Created February 27, 2020 22:09 — forked from HenrikBengtsson/xerox_accounting_template.ppd
Linux: Pass Accounting information to Xerox Printer via Postscript Printer Description (PPD)
*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
*% GENERAL ACCOUNTING
*%
*% Instructions:
*%
*% 1. Identify the accounting option or options used by the printer.
*%
*% 2. Replace the '{{...}}' placeholders with corresponding information
*% (without curly brackets). For example, '<22>XRX_USERID,{{userid}}<22>'
*% should become '<22>XRX_USERID,12345<22>'.
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wgmitchener / cult_of_ignorance.md
Last active April 11, 2022 03:31 — forked from jaeh/cult_of_ignorance.md
A Cult Of Ignorance, Isaac Asimov

A Cult of Ignorance

Newsweek January 21, 1980

Isaac Asimov/My Turn

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course.